Epistemic status
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Culture of origin: lesswrong-adjacent blogging communities
The [epistemic status] is a short disclaimer at the top of a post that explains how confident the author is in the contents of the post, how much reputation the author is willing to stake on it, what sorts of tests the [thesis] has passed.
It should give [a reader] a sense of how seriously they should take the post.
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